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history teacher in 50 years: So in September, that’s when the president signed an executive order criminalizing anti-fascism and saying all resistance would be crushed

student: oh so that’s when the whole country realized they were living under fascism

teacher: haha what? oh no lol not at all. no.

Trump’s Flood of Emergency Appeals Is Straining the Judicial System The administration has turned to the Supreme Court at a record pace, and the justices have issued orders that lower courts have struggled to interpret.

Trump has sought emergency intervention by the Supreme Court 28 times in the first eight months of his new term, more than Bush, Obama and Biden did combined over 20 years. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

Judge Immergut quotes James Madison from the
Records of the Federal Convention of 1787: “A standing
military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty. The
means of defence [against] foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at
home.”

Poster for Six Decades Later: Legacies of the 1965 Immigration Act, Duke University Asian American Diaspora Studies Program

Today and tomorrow: "Six Decades Later: Legacies of the 1965 Immigration Act" at Duke and UNC - featured speakers include Madeline Hsu, Mae Ngai, and Pawan Dhingra - join us if you're in town!
asianamericanstudies.duke.edu/conferences/...

ICE agents raid South Shore apartments; Trump says Chicago could become military training ground ICE agents raided a South Shore apartment building overnight as the city braces for a possible military deployment.

“ABC7 spoke to Pertissue Fisher, a woman who lives in the building. She said ICE agents took everyone in the building, including her, and asked questions later….’They was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other.’”

It can’t happen here, you say. But it is happening.

From 1939-1945 German officers also listened to speeches from civilians about how the laws of war didn’t apply to them. And then they participated in the Holocaust, starved millions of prisoners of war, destroyed villages and cities, and were defeated.

The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice. Except it doesn’t bend on its own—it bends because we pull it in the direction of justice. What keeps me hopeful during times like these is being surrounded by people who are doing just that.

ALA disappointed by FCC takebacks, lack of due process in decision to end library hotspots, school bus Wi-Fi The American Library Association (ALA) and partners in the Schools, Health & Libraries Broadband (SHLB) Coalition, expressed disappointment with today’s FCC vote to end E-Rate support for library and ...

NEW: ALA is deeply disappointed in the FCC's vote today to end #ERate funding support for wi-fi hotspot lending programs at libraries and schools.

We don't yet know the full extent of the impacts, but we know that libraries & their communities rely on this support: www.ala.org/news/2025/09...

Incredible pairing of text and chart

And... of course I sent the wrong link to register for Prof. Montemayor's talk. This is the correct one: bit.ly/AI-attention

Let me make it up to you with a cat photo...

Remembering Dr. Quintard Taylor, a Historian Who Made Black History Accessible Lola E. Peters reflects on the life and legacy of Dr. Quintard Taylor, a scholar, mentor, and visionary behind BlackPast.org who made Black history accessible for all.

Dr. Quintard Taylor, historian and founder of BlackPast.org, has died at 77. From "The Forging of a Black Community" to building a global archive, he made Black history accessible to all.

Read Lola E. Peters' reflection here: soseaem.org/4mEIrTv #Seattle

Adopt A Station - Rescue Public Media Help preserve independent journalism and community programming across America by adopting a public media station. Congress has voted to rescind public media's funding.

As always, support your local station. They need it more than you know. And, if you can swing it, adopt a station in another state: adoptastation.org

My employer New York Public Radio just announced that it is offering @onthemedia.bsky.social, @radiolab.bsky.social, and other programs to at-risk public radio stations for free! More info: current.org/2025/09/wnyc...

CNN has identified at least 100 U.S. citizen children who have been separated from their parents after ICE deported them - including newborns.

As a parent I cannot imagine the horror of being separated from my child, but that trauma is even more acute for the innocent children left behind.

Something I’ve been thinking about:

History as a profession has long relied on affiliation.

Your university or museum pays your salary, and in return, you give time to edit journals, peer review articles, write book reviews, consult on exhibits, and volunteer for institutional support. 1/

Senior Social Media Strategist IS-1035-12 Job Opening: Senior Social Media Strategist IS-1035-12 at National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, DC.

New job: Senior Social Media Strategist @ Smithonian National Museum of African American History & Culture. (Job closes once 150 applications are received, so apply NOW if interested.) FT, Washington, DC; $101,401-$131,826/yr

Develop/execute comprehensive social media strategy across the Museum.

Using Charlie Kirk’s assassination as a pretext, the Trump administration is planning on “an organized strategy to go after left-leaning organizations” that had nothing to do with his murder.

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Trump administration to add $100,000 fee for H-1B visas The Trump administration is targeting a visa widely used by tech companies and other employers to hire foreign workers.

Of all the stupid things that this regime has done, this is right up near the top. Postdoctoral researchers come to the US on H-1B visas. This will further destroy the US science enterprise. Stupid stupid stupid.

The UC is not just a fount of research and education and innovation, it is also the largest employer in the state. Considering the size of California’s economy, this would be yet another massive economic blow to the US.

It's not just UCLA. UC president warns of Trump push into all campuses and hospitals President James B. Milliken said current federal cuts are "minor in comparison to the threat that looms." Cuts, he said, could go far beyond UCLA and hit all 10 UC campuses as well as hospitals.

The University of California receives $17 billion annually in federal funds. Its president is warning of a possible Trump push across the system, making current federal cuts at UCLA and elsewhere seem “minor in comparison to the threat that looms”
www.latimes.com/california/s...

The true origins of the loneliness epidemic, discovered at last: everyone is dead.

Its H.R. 5300, "To guide the foreign policy of the United States, and for other purposes."

This is a five-alarm fire.

Icymi, we've launched a CFP for a new series.

If you have an interesting academic technique or process that you use in your work, particularly for humanities/arts/digital humanities, we would love to have you write about it for us

Our international system was gradually built upon the ashes of world war, by Republicans and Democrats, understanding that cooperation was the alternative to something real and horrific.

The US Administration is now throwing it off a cliff, smirking, without a droplet of debate about consequences.

Join us for a one-day symposium on transpacific Indigenous studies with guest speakers Quynh Nhu Le, Bayley J. Marquez, Tiara Na’puti, and Erin Suzuki. Speakers will present their research across a range of Indigenous geographies in Native America, the Pacific Islands, and Asia.

View of Lower Manhattan from the Manhattan Bridge, September 11, 2001. The skyline is shrouded in smoke.

View of Lower Manhattan from the Manhattan Bridge, 2010. Taken at 3 a.m., this photograph shows the Tribute in Light, an art installation near the World Trade Center site commemorating the 9/11 attacks. Two columns of blue light, representing the Twin Towers, reach from the skyline into the sky.

View south from the Manhattan Bridge along Madison St., Chinatown, Manhattan. March 2021. One World Trade Center is the tallest building in the skyline.

Vergara's archive includes a photograph taken from this spot on September 11, 2001. It also documents the Tribute in Light memorial and the progress of One World Trade Center's construction. guides.loc.gov/vergara-coll...

Republicans passed a massive tax cut for America's 900 billionaires. Now, everyone else is paying for it. #Trumpflation

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?"

A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.

Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.